"The latest addition to Blackwell's comprehensive surveys of literature and culture, this volume offers an impressive array of essays by reputable scholars ... This <i>Companion</i> will be a valuable introduction for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and useful resource for faculty."<br /> <i>Choice</i><br /> <p>"<i>A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature</i> is an impressive anthology of erudite essays written by scholars around the world on the topic of Anglo-Saxon literature, particularly that of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Prose, poetry, religious, and secular literature are all discussed at length in this college-level analysis and presentation, which is very highly recommended for academic literary studies in general, and medieval studies in reference collections in particular."<br /> <i>The Midwest Book Review</i><br /> </p> <p>"Many of the world's leading Anglo-Saxonists have contributed to this volume which provides a very useful overview of current preoccupations of those who study and teach Old English literature." <i><br /> Literature and History</i><br /> </p> <p>"Stimulating introductions that bring out the wider potential of their topics for understanding the Anglo-Saxon past ... much to offer the more experienced reader as well as the novice."<br /> <i>Literature and History</i></p>

This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies. Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars.Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period.Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings.Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxon studies
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This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies. * Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars. * Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period.
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Contributors x Preface xv Acknowledgements xvi Abbreviations xvii Map 1 Late Anglo-Saxon England xviii Part I Contexts and Perspectives 1 1 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Literature 3Elaine Treharne and Phillip Pulsiano 2 An Introduction to the Corpus of Anglo-Latin Literature 11Joseph P. McGowan 3 Transmission of Literature and Learning: Anglo-Saxon Scribal Culture 50Jonathan Wilcox 4 Authorship and Anonymity 71Mary Swan 5 Audience(s), Reception, Literacy 84Hugh Magennis 6 Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Production: Issues of Making and Using 102Michelle P. Brown Part II Readings: Cultural Framework and Heritage 119 7 The Germanic Background 121Patrizia Lendinara 8 Religious Context: Pre-Benedictine Reform Period 135Susan Irvine 9 The Benedictine Reform and Beyond 151Joyce Hill 10 Legal and Documentary Writings 170Carole Hough 11 Scientific and Medical Writings 188Stephanie Hollis 12 Prayers, Glosses and Glossaries 209Phillip Pulsiano Part III Genres and Modes 231 13 Religious Prose 233Roy M. Liuzza 14 Religious Poetry 251Patrick W. Conner 15 Secular Prose 268Donald G. Scragg 16 Secular Poetry 281Fred C. Robinson 17 Anglo-Latin Prose 296Joseph P. McGowan Part IV Intertextualities: Sources and Influences 325 18 Biblical and Patristic Learning 327Thomas Hall 19 The Irish Tradition 345Charles D. Wright 20 Continental Germanic Influences 375Rolf Bremmer 21 Scandinavian Relations 388Robert E. Bjork Part V Debates and Issues 401 22 English in the Post-Conquest Period 403Elaine Treharne 23 Anglo-Saxon Studies: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 415Timothy Graham 24 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: England, Denmark, America 434J. R. Hall 25 Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Germany, Austria, Switzerland 455Hans Sauer 26 By the Numbers: Anglo-Saxon Scholarship at the Century’s End 472Allen Frantzen 27 The New Millennium 496Nicholas Howe Selected Further Reading 506 Index 511
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This stimulating Companion brings together leading scholars from America, the Antipodes, and Europe to point the way ahead for Anglo-Saxon studies. The scope of the volume is unparalleled, embracing not only the literature of the period, but also the cultural background and the discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies, past, present and future. The chapters are linked into five sections covering contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates. The combination of the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings breaks new ground: fresh approaches are offered, genres of writing not normally studied are opened up, and readers are shown how texts can be read in their particular cultural milieu. The complete volume is essential reading for upper-level students or faculty who want a current and challenging overview of the field.
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"The latest addition to Blackwell's comprehensive surveys of literature and culture, this volume offers an impressive array of essays by reputable scholars ... This Companion will be a valuable introduction for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and useful resource for faculty." Choice "A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature is an impressive anthology of erudite essays written by scholars around the world on the topic of Anglo-Saxon literature, particularly that of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Prose, poetry, religious, and secular literature are all discussed at length in this college-level analysis and presentation, which is very highly recommended for academic literary studies in general, and medieval studies in reference collections in particular." The Midwest Book Review "Many of the world's leading Anglo-Saxonists have contributed to this volume which provides a very useful overview of current preoccupations of those who study and teach Old English literature." Literature and History "Stimulating introductions that bring out the wider potential of their topics for understanding the Anglo-Saxon past ... much to offer the more experienced reader as well as the novice." Literature and History
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Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Contexts and Perspectives. 2. Readings: Cultural Framework and Heritage. 3. Genres and Modes. 4. Intertextualities: Sources and Influences. 5. Debates and Issues.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781405176095
Publisert
2008-05-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Wiley-Blackwell
Vekt
953 gr
Høyde
247 mm
Bredde
173 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
560

Biographical note

Phillip Pulsiano is late Professor of English at Villanova University. He authored numerous articles on Old and Middle English poetry and prose, and co-edited the Garland Encyclopaedia of Medieval Scandinavia (with Paul Acker and Kirsten Wolf). He had completed the first volume of The Old English Psalters (for Toronto University Press), and had undertaken significant research on Latin female saints' lives from the medieval period, and (with Joseph P. McGowan) the prose texts in the Beowulf-manuscript: work that will be published posthumously.

Elaine M. Treharne is Professor of Early English at Florida State University. She is author of The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles (1997), co-editor of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage (with Philip Pulsiano), Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (with Mary Swan), and Readings in Medieval Texts (with David Johnson). She is the author of Old and Middle English: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003) and an editor for Review of English Studies and Literature Compass. She currently works on the ideology of early English texts and their physical contexts.